It’s good to show the times are moving
New station commander for Lossie been appointed and she comes from an ops/ infra background than aircrew
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Not necessarily true.
Group Captain (soon to be Air Commodore) Claire O’Grady was the Station Commander at Brize is an Adminer and the new Staish at Brize, Group Captain Louise Henton whos background is personnel support (I think).
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Front line fighter station then 
Grp Capt Rowena Atherton was boss at RAF Wittering 2006-08 when the Harrier was operational from there 
Or just Lossiemouth. Halton had a female staish when I went through.
So not taking anything away from the person concerned but is this bad wording by the newspaper & it’s the first time Lossiemouth has had a female station commander.
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Certainly seems that way.
It’s a great achievement anyhow.
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The RAF have changed the role of a staish completely. They’ve split out the DDH role for flying and given that to another OF5 who is typically in charge of the [“X stn] Wing”
The STN Cdr now keeps the head of establishment roles as well as the Commanding Officer title.
Speaks to the amount of bureaucracy there is nowadays that 2 X OF5 are needed to do the same work, probably due to the shrinking number of bases that are now consolidated
A cynic may even suggest that doubling the number of command appointments is a bit of a jobs for the boys scheme for underemployed GRP capts…
PS well done to GP Capt Sarah, I worked with her many years ago and she is very good
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But was she none aircrew ?
Typical reporting by the Northern Scot, you get used to it.
Yes, first time Lossie has had a female station commander rather than the first female station commander ever.
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If times really were ‘moving on,’ this appointment of a female RAF officer to a senior command position wouldn’t be newsworthy. Roll on that day. 
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